Assuming NHL'ers are invited to next year's Olympics (spoiler: they will be, fuckwit), who makes the cut for the good guys? Now obviously a lot will change in the next calendar year, but let's see which players the best Canucks board on the internet thinks will be clad in the hallowed red-and-white next winter.

Sure-fire forwards:

Crosby
Stamkos
Giroux
Toews

Probable forwards:

Nash
Marleau
Thornton
St. Louis

Sure-fire defencemen:

Weber
Letang
Doughty
Keith

Probable defencemen:

???

Sure-fire goaltenders:

Price

Probable goaltenders:

???

With so many good young players coming up it's really hard to know where things will stand by next December/January. The Americans will have Quick in net and the Russians will have the refs on their side, not to mention a front four composed of Malkin, Ovechkin, Datsyuk and Kovalchuck. Sweden will be a pack of bedwetting pansies as usual, who gives a fuck what they put together.

Could Eberle and RNH be ready by then? Tavares? Make your picks and look like geniuses, folks.

You know I thought he was off to a much worse start this year but yeah, assuming he returns to form and puts up another great season he probably has a lock on one of those top two lines (meaning nobody's going to be tempted to cut him for a Patrice Bergeron, Mike Richards type).

They were talking about who should make the cut for a few minutes. Near the end Rotten Ronny says "You know, the Canucks don't get respect. They have left-hand and right-hand guys Hamhuis and Bieksa on defense.... and a great two-way forward in Alexandre Burrows who should get consideration."

The other panel members were trying to look at him as though he's NOT crazy.... without success. They didn't comment. You just knew they felt sorry for him. It was like watching a man who had dug a huge hole for himself desperately trying to scramble out... but failing.

Rumsfeld wrote:
Sweden will be a pack of bedwetting pansies as usual, who gives a fuck what they put together.

There were many that thought once Sweden's "golden generation" (Sundin, Lidström, Forsberg, Alfredsson...) retired, we'd have a hard time finding some one to fill their skates. But look around the NHL now, and it's an embarassment of riches! Last year the Vezina went to Lundqvist, the Norris to Karlsson and the Calder to Landeskog. Colorado, Detroit, Ottawa and Vancouver all have Swedish captains. Here's my suggestion to who may get the nod:

A lack of righties, which is why I pick Larsson over eg Hjalmarsson or Ericsson.
Murray is not as skilled as some of the others, but we may need him when playing the North American teams.
Helps them remember to play by the code.

A lack of righties, which is why I pick Larsson over eg Hjalmarsson or Ericsson.
Murray is not as skilled as some of the others, but we may need him when playing the North American teams.
Helps them remember to play by the code.

Seriously, half your team wouldn't even be considered for the Red and White if they'd been born here instead of your frozen commie shithole.

The again, you don't actually watch NHL games, so I guess you think guys like Alfredsson and Steen and Murray are world class players.

LOL @ your third and fourth lines, there are NHL teams with better depth than that. The 2010 Blackhawks would be unimpressed.

The forwards that will be left off the Canadian roster would probably comprise a group that would hand you your yellow little asses. Lundquist is your only hope and when Crosby is feeding Stamkos on our first unit PP it won't matter how good your incredibly gay goalie is.

As an aside, are you going to continue pretending you're a Canucks fan when the Sedins retire? Please don't.